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Featured Image: Key Topics: Group Work, Hybrid Teaching, Engaging Students and Providing Feedback, E-Portfolio, Asynchronous Teaching, Communication, Use of Media, Exercises and Tutorials, Providing and Presenting Course Content, Group Work and Collaboration, Online Exams, Instructional Design.

Implementation

Here you’ll discover a wide range of options for shaping your teaching. We’ll introduce various methods and useful tools that you can use to actively guide and support teaching and learning processes. You’ll gain insights into how to effectively incorporate different media, formats, and technologies into your teaching.

Implementation

Here you’ll discover a wide range of options for shaping your teaching. We’ll introduce various methods and useful tools that you can use to actively guide and support teaching and learning processes. You’ll gain insights into how to effectively incorporate different media, formats, and technologies into your teaching.

Media production Presenting
Adobe Express
Create creative content with Adobe Express – from presentations and flyers to videos and social media posts. Adobe Express also includes generative AI tools. We’ll show you how to make the most of Adobe Express’s wide range of features.
Adobe Podcast user interface featuring AI-powered audio tools and coloured function tiles, along with an illustration of a person holding a microphone.
Media production Podcast
Adobe Podcast
Adobe Podcast is an AI-powered web platform for professional audio recording and editing. It is suitable for both beginners and professionals in this field. At the tool’s core is the ‘Studio’, where users can record professional podcasts, directly in their browser – either on their own or with guests joining remotely. With Adobe Podcast, audio…
Artificial intelligence
AI Toolbox
Artificial intelligence is already a factor at many universities. With the vast number of applications, teachers can quickly become overwhelmed. In addition, it is often not clear how good individual applications actually are. We present a selection of AI tools for various areas of application at the university.
Screenshot. Two audio files open in the audio editing programme Audacity.
Media production Podcast
Audacity
Podcasts (digital audio files) are becoming increasingly popular, and they can also be integrated effectively into teaching. Their narrative elements convey knowledge in a memorable and varied way. In addition, students have the opportunity to learn at their own pace by fast-forwarding and rewinding sequences.
Featured image: A woman sitting at her laptop wearing a headset and a microphone.
Digital Hybrid Teaching Video
Broadcast Course as a Live Stream
Participating in courses online, regardless of location, has long been possible and often makes sense—for example, for students who are temporarily or permanently unable to participate physically due to personal restrictions. In addition, if there is limited space at the university, it is easier if courses that are suitable are broadcast (in full or as…
Screenshot of the Camtasia interface. Various video elements have been edited together, and a selection of transitions is available.
Media production Video
Camtasia
Camtasia Studio offers numerous ways and options to record, edit and publish instructional videos – without additional software. We will show you the most important functions for designing your videos.
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Collaboration International
Carrying Out Your COIL Project
Once your course and institutional partner are confirmed, it’s time to co-develop your COIL project. In this phase, you and your partner will shape the course structure, activities, and timeline: What content will you cover? What kind of student collaboration is appropriate? And how can the courses at both institutions be meaningfully aligned? The goal…
The Media Office's green-screen studio at the Deutz location, equipped with a camera and microphones
Digital Lesson Planning Video
Create Educational Videos (or have them created for you)
Moving images, if put together well, can often be timeless. Die Sendung mit der Maus (The Show with the Mouse) or Löwenzahn (Dandelion) have shown that videos also work very well when teaching skills. In this guide you will find out which possibilities you have for your own educational/instructional videos and why you—in part—already have…
Exam Software
Designing Efficient Examinations with Scanner-Based Exams
With the examination software EvaExam, scanner-based exams can be efficiently created on a computer and partially get marked automatically after the examination. This saves time during what is often an already hectic examination phase. In this article, we present the advantages of using scanner-based exams to assess students.
Digital
Digitalization for studying and teaching – a strategy for the university
Digitalization is not only affecting our everyday lives but is also having an impact on our working lives. Digital and hybrid working methods are playing an increasingly important role in working life, so students should acquire digital skills at an early stage. The article provides a brief insight into the digitalization strategy of TH Cologne.
Student Classmate Friends Understanding Study Concept
Lesson Planning Projects
Effective collaboration with project-based learning
Project-based learning is more than just teamwork. Using this university teaching method, students can learn from the diversity of their group members and, at the same time, contribute their skills and ideas.
Blended Learning Education Approach. Teachers and Students. Online and Place Based Teaching and Learning. Vector Illustration.
Activate Hybrid Teaching Lesson Planning
Flipped Classroom
Teaching basic knowledge and still working intensively with students? Flipped Classroom makes it possible. Students work through material individually and independently at home so that you, as the teacher, can use the classroom time for repetition, practice, and application of acquired knowledge.

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You might be interested in this content. Articles and instructions on digital tools and good practice examples with a high didactic effect.

PLANNING
Motivation in teaching
Motivation is crucial for successful teaching and learning. But how can students be inspired to participate actively and independently in challenging learning processes? An effective didactic framework is necessary to encourage lively discussions and avoid passive behaviour. Key aspects include, for example, using a variety of methods, promoting personal responsibility and creating a motivating learning…
Accessible teaching
Accessibility improves your teaching! This fact is often forgotten because the focus is on the presumed additional expense. Besides, there do not seem to be any students affected in your course anyway – so the topic cannot be that important. In fact, you can create accessible conditions more easily than you might think. This will…
Gender diversity in university teaching
As a teacher, how can I create a teaching and learning space where everyone feels comfortable? There is certainly no universal solution to this problem. However, engaging with diverse identities and one’s own stereotypes can dismantle discriminatory structures and unconscious preconceptions. In the following article, you will learn how to ensure gender-sensitive teaching.
AI 101 – An introduction to the world of artificial intelligence
Everybody is talking about artificial intelligence and its applications. We are currently in a phase of exploration. Despite a critical attitude towards AI technologies, they can fuel innovation and open up new scope for action to promote sustainable development as well as social transformation together with students and practice partners. Let’s try to clarify the…
IMPLEMENTATION
Designing Efficient Examinations with Scanner-Based Exams
With the examination software EvaExam, scanner-based exams can be efficiently created on a computer and partially get marked automatically after the examination. This saves time during what is often an already hectic examination phase. In this article, we present the advantages of using scanner-based exams to assess students.
Adobe Express
Create creative content with Adobe Express – from presentations and flyers to videos and social media posts. Adobe Express also includes generative AI tools. We’ll show you how to make the most of Adobe Express’s wide range of features.
Adobe Podcast
Adobe Podcast is an AI-powered web platform for professional audio recording and editing. It is suitable for both beginners and professionals in this field. At the tool’s core is the ‘Studio’, where users can record professional podcasts, directly in their browser – either on their own or with guests joining remotely. With Adobe Podcast, audio…
Gemini Notebook: personalised AI research assistant
Create a personalised knowledge repository with Gemini Notebook. You can ask the research assistant questions about the content via chat and receive answers backed up by direct evidence. In addition, a wide range of AI tools can be used to create all sorts of content – from audio summaries and infographics to reports and flashcards.
REFLECTION
Reflection & Evaluation in COIL Projects
In the final phase of a COIL project, students come together, present, and reflect on their results. They look back on their academic insights as well as the experience of international collaboration, making their joint achievements visible. At the same time, instructors evaluate the project academically, organizationally, and interculturally. This phase is essential for ensuring…
Peer Tutoring – Students Support Students
With peer-to-peer tutoring from students for students, the services of the Writing Center have been expanded to include a particularly low-threshold format. But what exactly is behind it – and how does peer tutoring complement the teaching and learning culture at TH Köln?
How to transfer Good Practices
Didactic design patterns (also known as patterns) document good practices in teaching. They are based on experience gained from teaching practice. The structured form of patterns allows tried and tested solutions to recurring problems to be described and published in an easily understandable way. As a result, they make good practices visible and offer a…
Feedback in teaching
Since John Hattie’s meta-study “Visible Learning” was translated into German in 2013, one topic has become an integral part of the debate about our education system: feedback. But what is feedback and what is not?
EVERYDAY TEACHING
Open thinking, networking, and developing joint solutions at HIP
The University’s Interdisciplinary Project Week is an established digital format for interdisciplinary collaboration beyond faculty and subject boundaries. Students learn to operate in heterogeneous teams and develop an understanding of methods from other disciplines. Their task is to develop a project idea thematically linked to the respective Science Year. The central element is the methodically…
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